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Program Results Reports describe RWJF’s interest in the area and strategy for addressing the problem for those working in the field or interested in undertaking similar efforts. They explain the problem addressed; the activities undertaken; the results or findings from the work; lessons for the field; any post-grant activities—by the grantee or RWJF—and they include a bibliography of material produced during the project or program.

Starting in 2008, the Vera Institute of Justice in New York began running Common Justice, an innovative service program for those harmed by and responsible for crime and an alternative to incarceration for young people ages 16 to 24.

Open mHealth in 2011 began designing open source software architecture and defining cohesive data guidelines that could integrate the fragmented mobile health information ecosystem for the benefit of patients, providers, and health researchers.

After referrals from EMTs, the Citizen Action Program of United Way of Greater KC connects vulnerable patients with non-emergency medical and social services, helping these individuals to better health and preventing future non-urgent calls to 911.

During 2012 and 2013, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison analyzed health care utilization effects of expanding the state public health insurance plan, BadgerCare Plus, to previously uninsured low-income childless adults.

Researchers at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard assessed the potential value of selected biological markers to measure the impact of toxic stress on developing organs and regulatory systems in young children.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships is a 25-year-old national program providing matching grants for innovative community-based projects aimed at improving the health and health care of underserved and vulnerable populations.

A private health system in Long Island, N.Y., partners with a VA medical center to offer behavioral health services, provided by clinicians with trauma expertise, under one roof to veterans and their families.